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About Me

An innovative approach to help those children and youth who deal daily with developmental, physical and emotional disabilities to improve the quality of their lives and skills for their future.
Located in beautiful north Georgia just minutes from Chattanooga, TN., Heartland Ranch is an innovative facility dedicated to serving children with exceptional needs.
As a non-profit organization with 501(c)3 status with the help of hundreds of volunteers and generous community contributors, Heartland Ranch strives to improve the lives of special needs children of all ages using high quality programs. The Children of Heartland experience increased self-confidence and improvement in strength, balance, coordination, attention span, language and social skills.
Heartland Ranch specializes in:
Click Here for Day Camps
Click Here for HIPPO Therapy
and Therapeutic Riding
for developmentally delayed & high risk children
Click Here for Therapeutic Gardening ,
Worm Farming & Environmental Studies
"Project Ranch" is a vocational rehab,
socialization & transitioning program
for those with Developmental Disabilities
through horse & stable management
Click Here for Special Olympics Horse Shows
Confidence building, emotional & spiritual healing
English and Western Horseback Riding Lessons
to children and adults of all abilities
Click Here for Lessons & Basic Horsemanship Skills
Amenities which provide services for the
underprivileged and handicapped children include:
*A hundred acres with a fishing pond,
hiking and riding trails
*200x200 covered, lighted riding arena
*42-stall stable
Please donate now to Heartland Ranch and Arena to help continue the programming for the children!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

We'd like to meet & network with more like-minded advocates for the developmentally, physically, intellectually & emotionally challenged children of today who can help us get our name out there to the world at large because we are hoping to set a precedence in alternative approaches to more organic based therapies.

We would also like to meet more people who may be willing to volunteer their time or may want to serve an internship as part of furthering their education in working with these children.

We also welcome financial contributors to the cause. Anyone who may be looking for investment opportunities that will benefit our future...the children.

If you would like to contribute something large or small, we know that every little bit helps and small amounts added up become large amounts. You can send a contribution to Heartland Ranch through our website.

Go to the following link to Heartland's donation page & Help Save Summer Camps for Special Needs Kids!
CLICK HERE!
We would like to thank you in advance for considering the work that we do important enough to support.

My Blog

This is Faith!

From: EarthMamaDate: Oct 16, 2008 8:45 AMMeet Faith... This dog was born on Christmas Eve in the year 2002.  She was born with 3 legs - 2 healthy hind legs and 1 abnormal front leg which need to ...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:46:00 GMT

Honeycutt Youth Benefit Celebrity Golf Tournament

Hey Folks!  Just wanted to let ya know about a wonderful event happening in the Chattanooga area.  The details are below and if  you are interested, feel free to give the contact number...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:14:00 GMT

Heartlands First Music Benefit

Well folks, we had our very first Heartland Ranch Music Benefit on Saturday, July 19th at The Local Performance Hall in Chattanooga.We had a fabulous line up of artists to perform, including:Bob Carty...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:11:00 GMT

A Stroke of Insight

This is the story of Jill Bolte Taylor. When she was a young girl, brain scientist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor became fascinated with the functions of the human brain. Jill, one of Time magazine's 100 most...
Posted by on Wed, 28 May 2008 11:22:00 GMT

CLUB HIPPO SUPPORTS THERAPY WITH DD CHILDREN/JOIN TODAY!

HIPPOTHERAPY is a treatment that uses the multidimensional movement of the horse; from the Greek word "hippos" which means horse. Specially trained physical, occupational and speech therapists use thi...
Posted by on Thu, 22 May 2008 05:39:00 GMT

How is our garden growing?

This latest report comes from Joyce McNish, our Executive Assistant.  As each phase of this project becomes a reality, we cannot help but get more and more excited about Heartland's Future!On Sat...
Posted by on Sun, 18 May 2008 12:09:00 GMT

The Spring Bike Out Event Report

Well, I finally got some time and all the information together to give y'all a report on how things went for our Spring Bike Out biker rally, so here it goes...The weather man pretty much ruined it fo...
Posted by on Sun, 04 May 2008 18:30:00 GMT

Heartland Ranch Spring Bike Out April 26th

ATTENTION BIKERS IN SURROUNDING CHATTANOOGA AREA!Please check out what we have going on out at Heartland specifically for the bikers by checking out the flier below.  ALL proceeds go to benefit t...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:17:00 GMT

Focusing on the Possibilities, Not the disabilities

Hello everyone!All I can say about this entire endeavor is that there is most certainly a level of Divine Guidance behind it all, continually pushing it forward in a prosperous direction.  Probab...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:47:00 GMT

What Makes a Nonprofit Successful?

In reading from a great book on today's nonprofits needing to be forces for change instead of just plugging along being reactive to market forces or community needs (which of course is also important)...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:58:00 GMT